During an interview with Sri Lankan-English singer MIA, who's song Paper Planes from the film Slumdog Millionaire earned her a Grammy and Oscar nomination, Bill Maher compared the struggle of the minority Tamils in Sri Lanka against the majority Sinhalese government with problems involving minorities all over the world, including Northern Ireland, referring to the struggle between Catholics and Protestants. He then jokingly says that the problems in these areas are "always [caused by] the ...